Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-23
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past year, and feel accordingly very much
1plifted. By,petition and local option they
: control two-thirds of the State, and have
designs upon the other third.
= Mr.. Mccall, a member of the Nova Sco-
tia Legislature, has created a sensation by
announcing publicly that he is not only in
favor Of Withdrawing from the Dominion,
but of annexation to the United States.
The spirit Of disunion, it seems, was not
crushed out by the late election.
- The repeal Of the capital punishment
law In the State of Maine has been effected,
and imprisonment for life substituted for
sdeathin all cases of murder in the first de-
gree. Such convicts, however, are to be
Kept in close, confinement away from all
associations, and no pardoning power is left
to the, Governor and council unless the con-
.,vict is proved innocent.
49, Isaac III. Vincent, the Alabama default
ing treasurer, who has been missing since
1886, having got away with over two hum
dred thousand dollars Of public money, was
lodged in Jail at Montgomery on the 10th.
= He was caught near Ell Paso, Texas. He
left Montgomery on the night of January
20, 1885. A reward of five thousand dollars
4 was offered for his capture. His sureties
and his own property paid about fifty thou
sand dollars of the defalcation. Vincent's
I family are in Mexico, and his arrest was
/ made in Texas.
A Washington dispatch says: The Com
/ missioner of Internal Revenue, in reply to
an official inquiry from the Commissioner
/ Of Agriculture, states that the quantity OF
artificial butter manufactured for consump-
tion or sale during the months OF Novem-
/ Der, December and January was as follows:
November, 4, 4,742, ,569 pounds; December, 2
7s6, ,278; January, 2,501 ia; total, IL, ,O39 96l
pounds. The sales were: November, 3,247
pounds December, 5s, ,6S9; January, 50, ,761
total, ia ,697 pounds.
E Senator Cullom has said that at the
/ next session of Congress he will introduce
d bill similar to the Interstate Commerce
bill regulating the telegraph system. 1t
was his intention to have presented the bill
at the last session, but he was fearful that
it might imperil the Interstate Commerce
bill. The Senator is not inclined to the
opinion that the telegraph service should be
controlled by the Government, but that the
tariffs should be regulated. He believes
bill looking to this end could be passed.
A commission appointed blythe Cali
kfornia Legislature reports that there are
1000 convicts in, the State prisons, which is
| fearful showing. The commission finds the
principal sources of crime to be intemper-
ance, Ignorance, looseness of the marriage
! tie, opium and want of any trade or calling.
The number of young criminals is very
4 large, and we are told that in 1881, with a
compulsory education law, fully sc, 900 chill
dren between the ages of 5 and II failed to
! attend school. E..
= The last plot to assassinate the Car,
which was to have been carried out on Sun
day of last week, was arranged by the mem
bers of the Terrorist section Of the Nihilists,
and no connection with it. has been traced
to the faction which is conducting the con-
stitutionalist agitation, although this faction
has assumed the character of a secret society
with widespread ralnifcations. Several
hundred persons affiliated with the constl-
nationalist agitation have, however, recent
ly been arrested. ~
A mob of masked men surrounded the
Troy, Tenn, county Jail early Thursday
1morning and demanded admission. Being
refused they broke down the outside door,
went to the room of the jailer, and, breaking
In the room door, demanded the keys OF the
|cell, at the muzzles Of pistols and guns COM
pelling him to unlock the doors. They
took out prisoner, VIM. Hardy, a mulatto,
the murderer of a young white man at
Scott & Summers saw mill last fall in Dis
trict No 3. They hanged their victim to
tree one and half miles north of town on
the Union City road.
Says the Boston Record: In the hos
pital, i'll with general debility, is another
Famous convict. His name is Moses, eX-
Governor Moses, of South Carolina. This
old culprit is pretty well broken down phys
ically, he is an object of pity, for if he were
bet loose to-day he would be utterly un-
able to do anything for himself. He is a
man of medium height, with hollow cheeks
and sunken eyes. The physicians say he
has consumptive tendency. Some one
asked him few days ago what was the
cause of the breaking up of his health.
He replied that it was the effect of opium,
to which he had been addicted for many
years. This may explain the consumption.
During last week, 100000 were ship
ped to the assistant Treasurer at New York,
and $500, 600 to the Assistant Treasurer at
Chicago to meet whatever demands may
be made for notes of small denominations.
Most of the shipments were in $50, $40
and SIS silver certificates and United States
notes. The Treasury is also issuing 81 and
b2 silver certificates at the rate of $3.50, 900
daily. It is said at the department that
the present demand for small notes is ap-
parently fictitious and is probably due to
+ desire on the part of certain timid bank
ers to secure them in large amount for use
n the event of a possible stringency of the
money market. $3.50
The law passed at the recent session Of
Hl6 c4SOI Ill S1IOl4uo ACSlSAoeuAS AoL oASao oi-S
publication or circulation of any advertise
nent of lottery. The publisher of news
paper is indictable under its provisions in
Inycounty where the paper circulates if it
contains such an advertisement. The act is
aid to be copy of the New York statute,
ts constitutionality and comprehensiveness
having been well settled by several decis-
sns in the latter State. The first paper to
be indicted forViolation of this statute is the
Wilmington Star last Saturday, at Fayette-
kille. The grand jury of Cumberland coun-,
" Superior Court found true bill against
". S. Bernard, proprietor of the Star, for
his offence.
i The General Assembly of Virginia met
b extra session at Richmond last Wedes-
lay. Both houses promptly organized and
Joint committee was appointed to notify
he Governor that the Legislature was
eady for business. Soon thereafter mes
age from the executive was received and
cad. The Governor first calls attention to
he condition of the public debt, and de-
Fotes the greater portion of his message to
eviewing the action taken in past years for
settlement of the debt question. He rec
mmends the appointment Of commission
b the part of the State to meet similar
ommission on the part of the bondholders
Virginia or elsewhere, the duties of said
bmmission to be distinctly defined, the
bject being true presentation Of the rev.
nues and resources of the State, and what
he State can do.
A Macon, Ga., dispatch says: A report